Clean Edison To Sponsor Green Building Spotlight Speaker Series

Online, January 20, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Beginning this month CleanEdison hosts a lecture series that you will not want to miss.
The series features seven industry leading experts well versed in their respective specialties speaking in New York, Boston, Denver, Chicago and Dallas.
Offering one-day workshops, the seven speakers come from a variety of backgrounds including architecture, sustainability, and green building.
Lauren Yarmuth, Josh Radoff, Jenny Carney, John Boecker, Ann Edminster, Sandy Wiggins and Annette Stelmack are the guest lecturers but they are truly much more than that.
To sign up for any of the lecture series go here:
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Take Boecker for example. As an architect, he has focused exclusively on the design of high-performance green buildings since 1996. He serves as a green building consultant with project teams around the world helping them facilitate an integrative design process. During his workshop, "Integrative Design", he'll discus the key to cost-effective high-performance green buildings.
Based in Wellsville, PA, Boecker is a partner in 7group, a green building consulting firm. Along with his 7group partners, he co-authored The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building, a seminal book published by Wiley in 2009. He also authored the "LEED Services Profile" in the AIA Architect's Handbook for Professional Practice. His design work was recognized by over 40 design awards, including 25 Awards for Design Excellence from AIA, three Pennsylvania Governor's Awards for Environmental Excellence in 1998, 2001 & 2003, and selection by AIA for their nationwide COTE Top Ten Green Projects in 2000 and 2009. He was selected by the U.S. team to participate in the Green Building Challenge (GBC) as designer of three of ten projects nationwide selected to represent the U.S. at the Sustainable Building (SB) 2000 and 2002 conferences, held in Maastricht, The Netherlands and Oslo, Norway. He was part of the core group that led the U.S. Team's GBTool assessment work at SB 2008 in Melbourne and SB 2004 in Tokyo.
What does he hope people who attend his lecture will come away with?
"That high performance green and LEED projects do not need to cost more to build than conventional construction if project teams engage an integrative design process," Boecker answered. "Accordingly, we do not need to have any "payback" discussions."
Boecker added that the market demand for green buildings has increased dramatically.
"As a result a significant component of our economic recovery is tied to the green jobs associated with green buildings, not only due to the size of the design and construction industry's market sector, but also the manufacture of the myriad associated products and technologies," Boecker says. "Our "sustainability" work can move beyond simply "doing less damage" by first engaging a mindset shift that understands humans "as" nature, not separate from it; as such we can use the development of our built environment as an opportunity to improve and participate in the evolving health of each unique place."
CLEAN EDISON New York-based CleanEdison is a proven leader in education. Recently named a winner of the Consumer Trend News Green (CTN) 2009 Green Excellence Seal for Green Education Award, the company is changing the world one student at a time. The leading provider of green professional accreditation training, CleanEdison offers courses in 47 cities. During these courses students become Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) accredited professionals and possess the knowledge necessary to support the construction and design of green, environmentally friendly buildings. To meet the needs of the rapidly changing and growing market, CleanEdison is offers a curriculum that dovetails with the USGBC's new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Associate and LEED AP credentials. green training program in the nation. CleanEdison has courses in the USGBC's LEED certification, BPI Certification, Energy Auditing, Solar, Wind and Renewable Energy. CleanEdison has also developed numerous customized training programs specific to a business or organization's needs. The media noticed the work of CleanEdison and in September 2009, Avi Yashcin, the firm's president, appeared on CNBC with Erin Burnett. You can watch the interview here:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video_1254925997&play=1
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